Pizza boxes, s’mores and banking?
Jul 30th, 2008 by pollyalida
Marie Ellsworth of the Caldwell-Lake George Library sent us this note about one of their summer reading projects. They’ve teamed up with TD Banknorth and other local businesses to offer reading incentives. TD Banknorth is running a summer reading program that offers children a $10 incentive to read 10 books this summer.
We are right next door to Banknorth so we’ve worked out a cooperative venture. The kids sign up for the program here and get a packet I made up with the bank reading form, Pizza Hut & Appleby’s forms.
We are featuring earth-friendly projects in the children’s room. Next week is a solar s’more cooker made out of a pizza box and tin foil. Yeah, I’m not kidding! Our local pizza shop donated to boxes.
The bank is going to display the projects and any recyling ideas the kids come up with. They’ve even put up a special table to show the projects and promote the library and the NYS reading program.
Our motto is: “Save Money, Save the Earth.”
This seems like a good way to promote community involvement and make more people aware of library services.
Sign me up for those s’mores!
